The annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) was recently held in Denver on Nov. 14-17, 2018. As in previous years, several members of the Tell es-Safi/Gath Early Bronze Age project were there and presenting papers and posters. The following EB Safi related presentations were given: Elizabeth Arnold, Haskel Greenfield, Tina Greenfield, and…

Here are the details of the paper: Greenfield, H. J., Greenfield, T. L., Shai, I., Albaz, S., and Maeir, A. M. 2018. Household Rituals and Sacrificial Donkeys: Why Are There So Many Domestic Donkeys Buried in an Early Bronze Age Neighborhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath? Near Eastern Archaeology 81(3): 202–11. Check it out here!

I am about to depart for Munich to give a talk at the ICAANE conference on some results by my team. I will be talking about how one can reconstruct the age and sex of potters in ancient pottery from our site at Tell es-Safi/Gath in Israel based on their fingerprints left in the clay.…

Just received notice that we have been awarded $155k grant from the University of Manitoba for final renovations in our NEBAL (Near Eastern and Biblical Archaeology Lab) facility in St. Paul’s College. It will now be a fully renovated and equipped facility for our research endeavours.

In Toronto for the weekend to do a presentation on our research at Tell es-Safi/Gath at the Zooarchaeology and Landscape conference at the University of Toronto – a joint paper titled: The ‘Desert and the Sown’: domestic animal exploitation and management strategies during the Early Bronze Age at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel, with me, Tina L.…

Anyone considering going on the field trip to Tell es-Safi/Gath this summer, should take advantage of this generous offer by Prof. Aren Maeir. “ON DECEMBER 24, 2016 BY ARENMAEIR IN MISCELLANEOUS Following up on Eric Welch’s suggestion that a great present for the holiday season would be to pay for a relative’s or friend’s participation in…